Bacon Cipher A/B Alphabet

A complete modern 26-letter Bacon-style A/B reference chart using five-symbol groups and binary letter indices.

Letter	A/B group	0/1 group
A	`AAAAA`	`00000`
B	`AAAAB`	`00001`
C	`AAABA`	`00010`
D	`AAABB`	`00011`
E	`AABAA`	`00100`
F	`AABAB`	`00101`
G	`AABBA`	`00110`
H	`AABBB`	`00111`
I	`ABAAA`	`01000`
J	`ABAAB`	`01001`
K	`ABABA`	`01010`
L	`ABABB`	`01011`
M	`ABBAA`	`01100`
N	`ABBAB`	`01101`
O	`ABBBA`	`01110`
P	`ABBBB`	`01111`
Q	`BAAAA`	`10000`
R	`BAAAB`	`10001`
S	`BAABA`	`10010`
T	`BAABB`	`10011`
U	`BABAA`	`10100`
V	`BABAB`	`10101`
W	`BABBA`	`10110`
X	`BABBB`	`10111`
Y	`BBAAA`	`11000`
Z	`BBAAB`	`11001`

This is the common modern 26-letter alphabet (A=AAAAA, Z=BBAAB). Historical 24-letter Bacon variants combine I/J and U/V, shifting the later assignments. Check which version your cache uses.

Geocaching tip: The two symbol types can be encoded by bold/normal letters, capitals/lowercase or two different fonts.

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